flux

The definition of a flux is a flow of liquid from the body, or a constant movement or change.

An example of flux is diarrhea.

An example of flux is an ever changing list of the responsibilities of a specific job.

flux

noun

a flowing or flow

the rate of flow of water, as the tide or current, through a defined area

a continuous movement or continual change: fashion is always in a state of flux

any excessive or unnatural discharge of fluid body matter, esp. from the bowels

a substance, as borax or rosin, used to help metals fuse together by preventing oxidation, as in soldering

in metallurgy, a substance added to metals while they are in a furnace, to remove impurities, promote fusing, etc., as a non-metallic material added to a furnace charge that has the ability to fuse with undesired matter and form a liquid slag that can run off more easily

Physics the rate of flow of energy, fluids, etc. across a surface

Origin of flux

Middle English ; from Old French ; from Classical Latin fluxus, a flowing, flow ; from past participle of fluere, to flow: see fluctuate

transitive verb

to make (a solid) melt

to fuse (metals) by melting

intransitive verb

Archaic to flow or stream out

flux

noun

a. A flow or flowing of a liquid.

b. The flowing in of the tide.

c. A continuing movement, especially in large numbers of things: a flux of sensation.

Constant or frequent change; fluctuation: “The constant flux of people and groups ensures that human gene pools will always be mixed”(Steve Olson).

Medicine The discharge of large quantities of fluid material from the body, especially the discharge of watery feces from the intestines.

Physics

a. The rate of flow of fluid, particles, or energy through a given surface.

flux - Computer Definition

The rate of flow of something such as energy, particles, or fluid volumes across or through a surface. Radiant flux is the time rate of energy flow of radiant energy as measures in watts or joules per second. Luminous flux is radiant flux evaluated with respect to its luminous (brightness) efficiency. See also joule, luminance, and watt.

Sentence Examples

Heraclitus conceives of the incessant process of flux in which all things are involved as consisting of two sides or moments - generation and decay - which are regarded as a confluence of opposite streams. In thus making transition or change, viewed as the identity of existence and non-existence, the leading idea of his system, Heraclitus anticipated in some measure Hegel's peculiar doctrine of evolution as a dialectic process.'

Flux.A common event in the exudation of turbid, frothing liquids from wounds in the bark of trees, and the odours of putrefaction and even alcoholic fermentation in these are sufficiently explained by the coexistence of albuminous and saccharine matters with fungi, yeasts and bacteria in such fluxes.

Accordingly, when he denies the reality of Being, and declares Becoming, or eternal flux and change, to be the sole actuality, Heraclitus must be understood to enunciate not only the unreality of the abstract notion of being, except as the correlative of that of not-being, but also the physical doctrine that all phenomena are in a state of continuous transition from non-existence to existence, and vice versa, without either distinguishing these propositions or qualifying them by any reference to the relation of thought to experience.

He treated the resultant electric force at any point as analogous to the flux of heat from sources distributed in the same manner as the supposed electric particles.

Although the state has a great amount of limestone, especially in Erie and Ottawa counties, its dull colour renders it unsuitable for most building purposes.` It is, however, much used as a flux for melting iron and for making quick lime.